The Sun. — London, England, 1838-09-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Low company impairs not merely the estimation but the actual wor* of those who descend to it ; it brings them presently to low thoughts, low feelings, low habits, and low acts. When the Whigs, to regain office, tacked the Irish tail to their body, they became partakers in the qualities of of their appendage. Their knightly phalanx degenerated into a barbarous mob, and the shout of " St. George for England" was lost in an Irish howl. For the last three years Ireland and her imaginary grievances (for her real ores are all redressed) have been the ceaseless, wearisome topics of debate, till the whole atmosphere of public life reeks with them, and they stifle the nostrils and blight the eyes of all men. To different parties they are available for different purposes. To Mr. O'Connell they are the key of a never-ceasing rent, the " open sesame" for him and his 40 : to Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell they serve as a lasting, though threadbare, pretext for the main tenance of the Whig Liberators in the Administration. As in the choice of their topic, so in the treatment of it, the Whigs follow the impulses of Mr. O'Con nell. if he luxuriate largely in promises and vaunts, so do his Ministers. If he desert the movement he has excited, and spit away his pledges when he has sucked them dry, no less do the Cabinet, who draw their precarious breath from him, treat their pledges as rot • ten boroughs, to be hewn down and cast into the fire. Thus do the Ministers and their patron, with a common spirit and a common object, combine to makea common sacrifice of Ire land, and build up the hopes and accumulate the discontents of her people, as so much rubbish, by which they niay - clamber up, or behind which they may take shelter. We know not whether the Irish people will bear this mockery much longer. They may perhaps suspect at length that they are wasting their scanty funds and overflowing ener gies on objects which their deluders are not in earnest to obtain for them, and which, if obtained, would afford them no one single advantage, moral or physical : that their struggles, even if sincerely backed by their leaders, could go only to increase the Parliamentary power, and thereby the patronage of a few selfish politicians ; but that the effect of that very increase would be a further disadvantage to the poor of Ireland, by stimulating the disquiet of the country, by discouraging the investment of capital, and, conse quently, by checking the employment of the people. But if the priests, for the ends of their ambitious religion, shall still continue to blind the Catholic population to these obvious truths, of this let the pious agitators be assured, • that in England the farce of Irish grievance can be played no longer. Grievances there once were, and sore ones, and while they lasted we were amongst the most zealous for their redress. But with the extinction of the Roman Catholic disabilities all just subject of national complaint expired. For, as to the non-adjustment of the tithe, which, by the way, would have been adjusted long before but for the unconscionable demand of the appropriation party, the complaint, coming from the occupiers or their representa tives, was wholly groundless, inasmuch as the burden was never borne by them, but by their landlords, who got from them, by reason of the tithe, so much the less rent. The only material difference now remaining between Eng land and Ireland, is in the quota of taxation, in which particular Ireland is greatly indulged—and we can venture to assure Mr. O'Connell, that when he sets up his threatened demand for an equality in the numbers of English and of Irish Representatives, the people of England will not fail to ask him whether Ire land is prepared for an equality in her taxation too. They will ask him how it happens that, after having granted to Ireland all that her advocates were pleased to specify as requisite for her quiet and happiness, England is still im portuned and threatened, as if she were persisting to with hold some just and common right of equal fellowship. What was once a cry of suffering is now but a ridiculous cant. We remember a child who craved alms in St. James's-park through a long winter, with a melancholy plaint of starvation from cold ; but when, in a genial April day, the old note was repeated to the passengers, who were unbuttoning their coats and wiping theirbrows, the sympathy and the relief were forthcoming no more. The master men dicant, who takes Ireland out a-begging on his back, forgets that the pathos of the winter's chill is melted to nothing in the sunshine. He overlooks, in his cupidity, the plain con sideration, that in proportion as real sufferings are affecting, their detected counterfeit is ludicrous. In short, if the Irish go on much longer with their threats and murmurs, the English, who arc heartily tired of all this lugubrious mummery, will either take them at their t= ord, and repeal that union which they enjoy so ungratefully (a measure which we verily believe would long since have been resorted to, but from consideration for the Protestant proprietors), or, declining to punish them by granting their prayer, will find a legislative mode of quieting the agitators. For year after year the nation and the Parliament are prevented from giving their attention toreal business by the mock im portance of Irish grievances, and the artificial interest im parted to them by the supposed identafieation of the Ca binet's existence with the concession of the demarl•• d remedies. But even that secondary interest has now passed away ; for the Cabinet have shown, that though foiled upon these subjects, they can still preserve their places. They still, indeed, affect to attach a vast consequence to the matter ; but alien brought to the test, they forth with prove at how mean a rate they estimate the im portance of it, by sacrificing it to so low a consider ation as the m tinten ince of their own unworthy Go vernment. But it is time that affairs of more moment should occupy the Legislature of Great Britain, than the means of gratifying the ambition of jobhng corporators and hungry agents in the south of Ireland. The completion and extension cf the modern police—the consolidation and codification of the laws, and the introduction of cheapness and despatch- intu its ordinary administration—the regula tion of the country's internal intercourse—the improvement of its colonial relations and resources—the protection of chemical and mechanical inventions, now smothered under the uncertainty and expense of the patent system—a better adjustment of taxation—but, above all, the education of the people in the useful arts of this life, and the essential knowledge of a lif e t o come — t h ese are a f ew o f t h e sub jects upon which a Legislature may be well and wisely em ployed, and which may abstract the minds of restless men from squabbles about a barren political power, to fruitful topics and practical results.—Times. We are not so unreasonable as to blame our Tory Con temporaries for availing themselves of any plausible ground of attack upon Ministers ; it is their daily vocation, and now and then they may be able, with the exercise of in genuity, to hit upon < . onicthing - whirl: looks questionable; but they never stumbled upon a more er,sregious mare's nest than the case of Dr. Hook, which both in town and country they have been trumpettine forth as if a most un justifiable act of power had been committed against him. We fancied yesterday that the publication of Dr. Hook's letter in the Times (the paper which so greedily seized upon the imaginary incident, and which was, therefore, most fitly made the medium of complete contradiction), denying the whole story in the most distinct terms, would have put an end to the " important accusation," but the adversaries of Government are not so easily silenced ; they have of late been so hard driven for an opportunity for assailing Mi nisters that they cannot afford so soon to relinquish even a most unpromising and unprofitable topic. " While there is life there is hope," says the proverb, and while the Tory papers can keep the subject alive, who knows but something may by chance come of it. If there be no storm, the Times, Past, and Herald, like the three witches in Macbeth, may possibly be able to brew one, and such ingredients -as malice and disappointment can supply will not be wanting. Their " excellent ally" the Standard, as the Hecate of the occasion, -" the mistress of their charms, The close contriver of all harms," will not have to "look angerly" and to complain that any thing has been ne g l ec t e d, or t h at s h e has not been called upon "to show the glory of her art." The Morning Con temporaries we have named will leave no stone unturned to accomplish their end, and where their own invention fails they will not hesitate to resort to other sources. Therefore, in spite of the letter signed " W. F. Hook, D.D." and dated from his vicarage at Leeds, asserting in the most positive language that he had not been prohibited from preach ing in the Chapel Royal, and that he had "no rea son to suppose that her Majesty was otherwise than pleased with what - he stated in his sermon, "the anti-ministerial journals have been gratifying themselves and amusing their readers by copying from the Doncas ter paper a most preposterous piece of fiction, which carries falsehood on the very face of it, but which, as it tended to make out a sort of accusation against Go vernment, they could not choose but insert. The dis tress of the case with them was such, that even in the teeth of an absolute and unqualified contradiction, printed by them all in the same day's _publicatio n, they could not forego this most gratuitous effort of imagination by a country editor. It ;is so fine and finished a specime n of " the lie circumstantial," with names and a great variety of minute particulars calculated to impose, at least up o n rus ti c readers, that it is worth inserting here as a proof to what lengths certain people will go_ when unchecked by th e s lightest regard for truth , and urged onward by the strongest love of party. The subsequent extract is from th e D onc a s ter Chronicle, and it is pre ceded by a brief explanation, and some high-flown com pliments to the Queen for having done what, it turns out, it never could have entered her Majesty's head to do : " The facts, as we have them from high authority, are as follow A few days after Dr. Hook had preached his me i% • • •-• , .n of Hear the Church,' in the Chapel Royal, - lfse‘Aes . upon by a N o bl e L or d , b etter known t h an lik e d , r er., ''ding of' this county, wh o t o ld him that his s es n great offence at Court. Dr. Hook ex ittioie e e l ,' lass , • ; at its ha v i ng d one so; stated his firm belief aeics e !te had advocated—principles from which he • b , uld not del; and said his sorrow arose not for himself, as , fs; • 'cotild not retract anything he had said, but for the Queen, ~, ~-~_ THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1838. hatred of the popular masses, which now torment the trembling Ministerialists. It is in vain that they attempt to disguise this fear by words of bullying abusiveness. It is to no purpose that they call the crowd, whose supp ort they were once so proud to proclaim, " the gaping multi tude," or that they sneer at their former speechifying friends, as " itinerant spouters." This kind of insolence deceives no one. It is too barefaced. The public are, indeed, very forgetful, but not quite so forgetful as these weathercock Whig-Radicals seem to think. It is not so long since the " movements of the masses" were appealed to by Ministerialists as irresistible evidence of the power which they possessed and the futility of opposition to it, that the public should now hear without contempt and disgust, these same Ministerialists referring to their own expression —the " movements of the masses," as a pom pous absurdity. And what is the origin of the virulent hostility to the British multitude which the Ministerialists now display ? Whence these fountains of bitterness which overflow in such acrid streams of abuse ? Have the multitudes changed? Do they profess different views now from the views they professed when the Ministerial Whigs boasted so vehemently of their friendship and support ? Have they deceived their sometime loving friends, the re spectable tenantry of Downing-street? No ; if they had, the virulence of Ministerial hostility would be much less than it is. Men do not hate those who have deceived them half so much as those whom they have deceived, and who have found out that deceit. This is the position of the Whigs with respect to the multitude. By cheating the masses they obtained official power. They owe every thing to popular clamour, and that popular clamour was raised by a fraud which the populace have now discovered. The Ministerial Whigs must have known all along that they were cheating the populace. They must have known that they could not give tlie populace what they wanted, without going such lengths in revolution as would be their own ruin ; yet still they went on flattering the populace that everything would be conceded to them, and boasting of the popular violence in their fa vour which by this fraud they were enabled to obtain. Of that violenee they boast no longer, for the fraud has been discovered, and the suffrage of the multitude is no longer in their interest. They are angry for being opposed by those who did support them ; but more angry for being found out, and published as political cheats by the united voices of millions of the people. This multitudinous force they now pretend to regard with contempt, and they seem to scorn the idea of Ministerial intelligence and authority , being overborne by what they describe as a mass of igno rance and passion. But, however meanly they have per suaded themselves to think of popular farce now that it is not with them, they have abundance of i2alousy of the Tories, when the suspicion crosses their minds that these " ignorant multitudes" may possibly prefer Tory rule to that of Whig-Radicalism. This does not look as if their scorn of the masses was as sincerely felt as it is bit terly expressed. But it is in vain that the Whig-Radi cals chafe against the natural course of events, when at last the truth is enabled to prevail. The impatient masses, who are looking for important changes that may make our Legislative Government much more demo cratic than it is can never indeed join with the Tories, who are so utterly opposed to all such changes, and who (unlike the Whig-Radicals) are altogether incapabl e o f c h eat i ng the multitude into any false notion of their political views. But that need not, and it will not, prevent these masses from preferring honest and consistent opponents, to a false and selfish party which made use of them to obtain power, and now abuses them because a fulfilment of its pledges is demanded. The Tories have never deceived the mul titude. They have never told the populace that their voice was the true voice of the nation which ought to be paramount in all matters of Government. They never put forth the doctrine—as the organs of the preset.-, Ministry did—that the will of the majority of the people was the true test and the only test of political justice and expediency. They said when the storm of the multitude was raging at its wildest, and they say still, that " men are qualified for civil liberty in proportion to their dis position to put moral chains upon their own appetites —in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity—in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption—in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the coun sels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves." The multitudes know that this was, and is, the doctrines of Toryism, which have been acted upon in fair weather and in foul ; and English multitudes, at all events, have enough of the national sentiment among them to pre fer a party as-owing these consistent sentiments, however little flattering to democratic pretension, before the false and feeble Whig-Radicals, who, to obtain power for them selves, make common cause with the wildest democracy ; and to keep power to themselves, spurn this democracy as aninsane vice of the multitude. But the masses, while they are treated with such contempt by the Ministe rialists, are nevertheless entreated by them to believe that the Tories are selfish and oppressive, and care no thing for the people. This charge comes with an ill grace from the present Ministerialists. It is not for us to boast that all Tories are exactly what they ought to be in their public conduct. We think that, considering the means which they possess in the country, they might do more for the practical advancement of their own prin ciples ; and we wish they would, because we believe that in doing so they would advance the honour of the nation and the happiness of the people ; but, as a party, they are guilt less of such acts of selfishness and tyranny as crowd upon the attention of any one who surveys the conduct o f th e present Ministers.. The Tories have never contended that a Governor of their appointment should be allowed to violate the law, and to substitute his will in the place of the regular process of criminal justice. They have never coun tenanced the thrusting of political opponents into Newgate by sentence of a party m a j or ity i n th e House of Commons, as the present Ministers have done. They have never pissed a party vote to cause a man's house to be rifled and his private papers to be examined, in hopes of finding some ground of attack u p on po li t i c al opponents —but this the present Minist ers h ave d one. T hey h ave n ever lauded men as patriot s w h en t h ese men were h e lping there, and denounced an d persecute d the same men as dema gogues when they ceased to help them ; but this has been done by th e p ar t y o f t h e present M i n i sters. S o much for the comp arat i ve tyranny and oppressiveness of Tories a nd Whigs. A s t o se lfi s h ness, we may boldly appeal to all ' the wo r ld w h et h er t h ere ever b e f ore was ; eon under any , other Gov ernmen t suc h an un bl us hi ng exerc ise of patro nage on behalf of themselves and friends as has been exhi heed by the present Governmeut. The whole ingenuity of the Government has been devoted to the cr eation of all sorts o f comm i ss i ons i n a ll d epartments o f t h e Administra tion, for the purpose of providing for adherents at the pub lic expense. In the bestowal of honours and e moluments for their own personal and party advantage, there has been, on the part of the Whigs, neither moderation nor shame. What would have been said of a Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer if he had made his own son, a raw youth with out experie nce or re p u t at i on o f any ki n d, a Commissioner of Customs ? Yet the Whig Chancellor of the Exche quer does this, and straightway his parasites accuse the 7'wies of selfishness! But the public are not to be thus deceived—the reign of Whig-Radical fraud is at an end so far as England is concerned, and it remains for England to act strenuously upon the prevailing conviction as to the character of the present Government. --Morning Post. The show-up of the rapacity of the Whigs in the last Number of Blackwood is inimitable, and must open the eyes of any whose eyes are yet shut to the one only object of these out-of-office professing patriots. We have not room for the whole article, which we strongly recommend to Conservative perusal. As, however, Lord Grey's ad mirersqt h u e , s t io. p n of a s a t.n lo m ft a y ry pe o d f eit thearticle Noblen in the North have just erected a statue to him on some al o w f a the co o p ffi y ce f s ro h m eld th b e y Earl's immediate relatives, showing that in Whig estimation virtue is not sufficient for its own reward. After mention ing that Dr. Grey, the Bishop of Hereford, is; dead, and l a that the Noble Earl himself, an d hi s brother-in-I w N Edward Ellice, have retired f r o m o ffi ce ' 1". , the article in question adds— " We may mention as specimens of these patriots Viscount Howick, Secretary at War ; Hon. Colonel Grey, Command ing 71st Regiment ; Hon. John Grey, R ecto of the rich royal living of Wooten ; Hon. Frederick Grey, Under Se cretary of the War Department; Sir George Grey, Under Secretary in the Colonial . Department; H on . Francis Grey Rector, with a valuable living; Hon. H arry G rey, Aide-de- Camp in Ireland ; Hon. Sir Henry Grey, Gen era l and Colonel of a Regiment in the Army ; Mr. Charles Wood (son-in-law of Lord Grey), Secretary of the Ad m i ra l ty; Mr. F. J. Baring (married a niece of Lord Grey), Secr e t ary to t h e Treasury ; Earl of Durham (son-in-law of Lord Grey), Go vernor of Canada ; Lord Ponsonby (broth er -i n- l aw of Lord Grey), Ambassador to Constantinople; Mr. B. Ellice, jun., (nephew of Lord Grey), Secretary of Lord Durham," & c ,_ Morning Herald. Never was a greater moral combination b roug h t to b ear upon the proceedings of any Parliament, not even when Catholic Emancipation and the Reform Act w ere passe d under the acknowledged and irresistible s u p remacy o f is i public opinion, than that whichnow in every part of the United Kingdom preparing - to direct its action on the next session of the Legislature. When the Act o f R e f orm as well as the Act of Catholic relief had received the Royal Assent, the nation was considered to have passed through a favourable crisis, and was expected to reco ver f rom t h e pernicious effects of Tory domination by being allowed to enjoy a state of convalescent repose. This anticipation, however, was disappointed ; the cancer of corruption had eaten its way too deeply into the Constitution to be so speedily eradicated, and though a few rotten borou g h s were lopped off, the healthy action of the Legislature, owing to the i n fl uence of the disease remaining in the Commons, and the torpid incubus of the Lords, was found to be almost as much impeded as ever. Toryism, supposed to have been laid prostrate, never to rise again, soon appeared as rampant as before, and imposing on the weakness of the Sovereign, dared even to usurp the Government of the State. Roused by the memory of past, and the fear of future oppression, and indignant at the in sult offered to the Government in which it Lad placed its confidence and hope, the nation, scarcely rested from its previous effort, again put forth its strength, and Toryism was obliged, under popular rebuke, to retreat from the council of the Sovereign. Thus precluded from the perpe tration of evil, the designs of the faction were necessarily limited to the prevention of good. And in this the results of the last four sessions of Parliament but too well attest their success. In the circumstances of the time this negative capacity of evil is scarcely less mischievous than the infliction of positive wrong. Well may the Tories exult in the success of their machinations ; but we are much mistaken if their Jubilate prove not a mere prelude to their Jeremiad. Desperate diseases by desperate appliances are removed. A lenient treat ment seems lost on Toryism, and the nation is now prepar ing for a more decisive operation than any it has hitherto put in practice. At no previous period of their history did the people of the British isles present a more imposing attitude than at present. Those to whom they had con fided the trust of legislation have betrayed their confidence, and they now come forward in million masses to re-assume, and make a different disposition of the legislative power. Such is the crisis which Tory perversity has forced upon the country. Had Parliament made even moderate con cessions to the just demands of the people, years would have elapsed before the latter would even think of en• forcing such claims as they now make the basis of their " Charter." Exult then, ye Tories, and ye hereditary legislators, rejoice in your work, ye have done more for the advancement of the democratic principle within the last four years, than all the agitators, whom you hold in such abhorrence, could have effected throughout their whole turbulent existence. But before you had evoked th e spirit of the storm it would have been well you had considered how it were to be appeased. The cloud which appeared on the horizon at the close of the Session is ra pidly spreading itself over the whole firmament—the storm will be soon howling at your doors—with what spell or sa crifice do you purpose to propitiate its spirit ? It will not now be sufficient to cast out a Lyndhurst or an Exeter ; every unclean thing must be flung from the ark of the Con stitution. Happy for England the intelligence which directs the elements is an intelligence of good. It comes to purify, and not to destroy. It is the corruptionists alone who will need to hide their heads during the pelting of the storm. The country is merely in the process of political and social regeneration. In the intelligence and high moralsharacter of the people we have ample guarantee for the preservation of peace and order, while in the extent and unanimity of their organization is to be found the most certain pledges of their victory.—Morning Advertiser. GRAND REVIEW AT WOOLWICH. Yesterday one of the many grand exhibitions of this nature took place before the Turkish Ambassador, a numerous suite, and a splendid military staff. His Excellency arrived here at one o'clock, and proceeded to the Plumstead marshes, to witness the rocket practice, after which he was conducted to the Royal Arsenal, where he saw the process of boring cannon, and other works of military science, carried on in this garrison town. After which he proceeded to the Mess roo►n of the Royal Artillery, and partook of a cold colla tion, by which time the field batteries, commanded by Colonel Cleveland, and the Royal Horse Artillery, com manded by Colonel Whynyates, had taken their station on the mmon. _ _ At half-past three o'clock his Excellency and a numerous staff arrived in front of the line, and he was received with a ni,yal salute. After ho had passed down the front, and re ,.rned by the rear of the line, he took up his station at the flagstaff; and the troops passed in review order at the ordinary pace, and also at the trot; after passing the second time the Light Horse Brigade countermarched, and galloped past at their utmost speed, the dressings being so well kept as to call forth the approbation of his Excellency. The Royal Horse Artillery then took up a position in rear of the right of the line, and the field batteries went through a number of evolutions in their usual spirited and correct style. Having concluded by advancing and giving a Royal salute, his Excellency complimented Colonel Cleveland in the most handsome manner, on the efficiency of the men under his com mand. No sooner was the left flank of this portion of the troops clear of the horse brigades right in their rear than they made a most splendid dash to the front, and within a few yards of the inspecting General, Major-General Fryer, R. A., who commanded in the absence of Lieutenant-General Lord Bloomfield, unlimbered and fired three rounds, in an in credibly short space of time. They then took positions to the right, to the left, in the rear, and in eschellon, acquit ting themselves in the various movements with the same soldier-like celerity and precision, until the conclusion of the business they had to undergo. The dismount ings, unlimberings, and ro-mountings, appeared to sur prise and delight his Excellency, but when the guns were dismounted, re-mounted, and two rounds fired within a minute, he appeared completely astonished. These splendid troops having quitted the ground, his Excellency was con ducted to the Royal Rotunda, after which he witnessed the mortar practise, at six hundred yards. The first round was exceedingly good, and at the - conclusion of the second the flag-staff was cut asunder by a shell. Tumultuous applause followed this event, and his Excellency shortly after left the ground. Great disappointment has been experienced by a vast number of people coming here on Monday last, and on other occasions, in consequence of it having been an nounced by the London Press that a sham fight and review was about to take place on those days ; but in consequence of the loss which the farmers and market gardeners sustained b♦ the troops crossing over their crops and the multitude fol lowing them, a petition was forwarded by them to the Ord nance-office, setting those matters forth, and at the same time demanding compensation for any damage which might be done. It has therefore been determined that a sham fight, which ne cessarily occupies so much space, is not to take place until the harvest is completed. There appears to be no foundation for the report that Redschid Paella has been removed from his high office in the Councils of the Sultan. Although he is on his way to England it is on a spec:al mission of the greatest import ance to his country, which the Sultan personally wished hitn to undertake. If he had been coming here as an ordinary Ambassador from the Porte the present one would have been recalled, but such is not the fact ; the letters retains his post. —Morning Post. THE DOCKYARDS.—( From a Correspondent.)— The Superintendents of the different dockyards have received private instructions to hasten, as much as possible, the masts and sails required to keep up the stores, and hurry ships in their respective dockyards ; and such was the hurry at Sheer ness, that the tank vessel was ordered off on Sunday last to fill the tanks of the Caniperdown to 240 tons. Whether this pri vate hint from one of the Lords of the Admiralty to the Super intendents of the Dockyards presages the increase of our naval armament, or arises from the panic now existing in the dockyards for the want of stores, is yet to be developed.— Times. DESCENTS OP THE VAUXHALL BALLOONS. — The Nassau balloon, which ascended on Tuesday last with Mr. Green, Mr. Spencer, and Mr. Rush from Vauxhall-gar dens at 20 minutes before 7 o'clock, descended a few minutes past 8 o'clock near Rodney Wood, in the parish of Hebden, Hertfordshire, a distance of 47 miles from the Royal Gardens. The coronation ballon, which ascended at the same time and from the same place with Mr. H. Green and another gentle man, took an entirely different direction, arid descended at Stanmore Wash, near the town of Edgeware, within eight miles from the spot whence the &scent took place. MISS LA CREEVY AND NICKLEBY.—" Don't let me put you out of the way," said a voice Miss La Creevy knew. " I told the servant not to mention my name, because I wished to surprise you." " Mr. Nicholas," cried Miss La Creevy, starting in great astonishment. " You have not forgotten me, I see," replied Nicholas, extending his hand. " Why I think I should even have known you if I had met you in the street," said Miss La Creevy, with a smile. " Hannt another cup and saucer. Now I'll tell you what, y o ung nr.en ; I'll trouble you not to repeat the impertinence you were guilty of on the morning you went away." " You would not be very angry, would you ?" asked Nicholas. " Wouldn't Il" said Miss La Creevy. " You had better try, that's all." Nicholas, with becoming gallantry, immediately took Miss La Creevy at her word, who uttered a faint scream and slapped his face; but it was not a very bard slap, and that's the truth. " I never saw such a rude creature l" ex claimed Miss La Creevy. " You told me to try," said Nicholas. " Well, but I was speaking ironically," rejoined Miss La Creevy. "Oh that's another thing," said Nicho las; " you should have told me that too." " I dare say you didn't know, indeed I" retorted Miss La Creevy. —Nicholas Arickleby, Sept. - - T e l h o e st f : o - 1 1 o A vv t i o n n g e a o n f e th c e dote Holland House Sunday dinner p ar t ies, man y years ago, Crock ford's Club , then form in g , was talked of ; and the Noble r o li f E th i s REV.wt ty S d Y iv p in N e E i Y s too SMITH. — o h os t e ss observed, that the female passion for diamonds was sure ly less ruinous than the rage for play among men ; up on which Sydney Smith wrote the following impromptu sermonet most appropriately on a card :—. Thoughtless that " all that's brightest fades," Unmindful of that knave of spades, The sexton and his subs : How foolishly we play our parts I Our wives on diamonds set their hearts, We set our hearts on clubs.—Bentley's Miscellany. A NEW THEATRE IN GLASGOW.—The Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council are now to decide whether it is necessary that a patent should be granted for another theatre in this city. A memorial on the subject, suggested by Dr. Drury, and signed by 900 of the inhabitants, was some time ago entrusted to Mr. John Dennistoun, one of the repre sentatives of the City, who returned an answer that he had transmitted it to the Secretary of State, by whom it would be f u lly considered. From the Home Office a letter was received, stating that the memorial had been transmitted to the Privy Council ; and yesterday Dr. Drury had a letter from the Privy Council, leaving the matter in the hands of the Magistrates and Town Council. Dr. Drury intends making immediate application to the Magistrates an d Town Council.—Glasgow L'ourier. that her Majesty should disapprove of those sound and scrip tural doctrines which be had advanced in his sermon. He added that, if he was to be restricted in the pulpit, he could not retain his office ; and the result of the interview was, that Dr. Hook wrote a letter to the Queen, resigning the honour able situation of Chaplain to the Palace Royal, an office which George IV. had bestowed upon him. " The surprise of the Queen, on receiving this letter, we are told, was excessive. It was shown by her Majesty to one of the Ladies of Honour, Miss Dillon, who advised her Royal Mistress to send for the Duke of Wellington. The advice was followed: the Noble Duke took the letter home with him, which we understand is one of the most beautiful compositions ever penned, and carefully read that and the sermon. On his next audience of the Queen his Grace told her there was not a sentiment, not a line, in the sermon which ought to call forth the displeasure of a British Queen, but the reverse ; and he respectfully advised her Majesty to send for Dr. Hook. The Queen commanded the attendance of the excellent and honest defender of the Church, and was closeted with him for half an hour. in that interview the Queen, we are in formed, expressed her surprise at receivio , -: Dr. Hook's resig nation, particularly on the ground stated,' as she had never taken nor expressed any offence at the sermon in question ; and Dr. Hook left the Royal closet Chaplait. to she Queen, retain ing the appointment at her Majesty's expra-ts request.'" After reading this circumstantial fabricetion, we almost feel inclined to exclaim, like Shaksp• re's mob hero, " Knock me down that particular villai for more par ticularity in the narrative of an utte- , -..bsolute false hood we never hanoened to meet with. "1.2 it is an utter and absolute falsehood from b?giun . ng ,and is evident, not only from the story it set'. > n -y in which it is told (the inventor I:aeinz ct liz.s work most ridicu lously), but from the crie! :.a ~.equivocal terms of the letter of Dr. Hook to the .O::or of the Times, desiring a contradiction of all that unseenpal -es paper had previously published on the subject. We sitould like to know who is the "high authority" the writer in the Doncaster paper re fers to as having favoured him with these " facts" respect ing the excessive surprise of the Queen, and the advice she first took from her Maid of Honour, and then, at the in stance of the said Maid of Honour, from the Duke of Wel lington. We should be especially curious also to see the private epistle of Dr. Hook to her Majesty, which is stated to have been " one of the most beautiful compo sitions ever penned." We dare say the editor of the Doncaster Chronicle was of the same opinion respecting his own lucubration. The whole story from first to last has been nothing more nor less than an impudent, scandalous, and disgraceful fiction, got up for the mere purpose of ex citing an unfounded prejudice against Ministers. Yet it was put forth and reiterated with the utmost assurance ; and when officially contradicted by us on Saturday last, the Times had the cool effrontery on Monday to follow up its first falsehood by another, that the Ministerial Journals had adopted the story as true, and had vindicated the course supposed to have been pursued by Lord Melbourne towards Dr. Hook. When it made the assertion it knew that it was totally without foundation, and it has not since been able to produce a single instance in support of it. Such is the mode in which the 7'imes carries on its hosti lity to Government, and such the mode in which it un dertakes to recommend the Tories to the respect and con fidence of the nation. It flatters itself (vide its leading article of Monday last) that before the arrival of the next Session of Parliament the people will have become quite Tored—perfectly in love with the Conservatives. There is no knowing what miracles maybe wrought in the interval by such an advocate as the Times.—Morning Chronicle. It has been often observed that the growers of corn in this country have one great advantage over manufacturers, that as we import food and export manufactures the price of food is constantly dearer here than in other countries, and the price of manufactures cheaper. The British corn grower receives the manufactures he requires at a lower price than the foreign corn-grower can receive them, for the price abroad determines the price at home, and the English consumer pays less than the foreign consumer by all the charges which must be added before the goods reach the foreign market. On the other hand, corn must always be dearer here than in the exporting countries by the amount of charges of all sorts which must be added to the price before it reaches our markets. In this way the British agriculturists have, in the circum stance of this country manufacturing greatly beyond the home consumption, the great advantage that they sell what they raise themselves at a higher price, and buy what is produced by others at a lower price, than the agriculturists of any other country. In answer to a question put by the Manchester Guardian, " Why may not the English farmer compete with foreigners just as well as the manufacturer ?" The Standard says, " Re verse the proposition---' Why may not the English manu facturer compete with foreigners just az well as the English farmer?' We should like to hear the answer to this ques tion from the universal voice of Manchester, Leeds, Shef field, Macclesfield, &c. Does the Manchester Guardian forget that the home and colenial markets are secured to the English manufacturers—and properly so—by protecting duties strictly analogous in all respects to those Corn-laws of which it complains ?" The protecting duties on manu factured goods are not strictly analogous. The duties are fixed, and in the case of the highest, that on silk, the only manufacture in which we were inferior to foreigners, the duty was fixed by Mr. Huskisson at 30 per cent. The great staple manufactures of this country require no protecting duty, for who would think of sending me nufactures to a country which itself sends its cottons, its woollen!, its hardware, &c., to every country from which they are not rigorously excluded? A glance at our exports and imports %sill show that in spite of the duties imposed on them in most countries of Europe, they find their way to them notwithstanding ; but that, except in the case of a few fancy articles, we really import no manufactures into this country. What country would think of sending manufactures to the country which is the great exporting country of manufactures? It would be as absurd as sending coals to Newcastle or corn to Poland. In truth, the duties which exist on most of our manufac tures are more a matter of antiquarian curiosity than any thing else. Even in the case of silk, on which the duty was once prohibitory, it has been proposed to lower the pro tecting duty as absurdly high. Manufacturers are entitled to the benefit of a countervailing duty where the article produced by them is subject to a particular tax:and an equi valent drawback on exportation ; and Mr. Ricardo, who propcsed a protecting duty to the farmer, to the extent of the duties peculiarly affecting agriculture, proposed also an equivalent drawback. With respect to the taxes pecu liarly affecting agriculture for which a countervailing duty ought to he imprFe , i en exportation, Mr. i'sl‘Culloch in his " Commercial Dictionary" observes, " If it be really true that agriculture is more heavily taxed than any other branch of industry, the agriculturists are en titled to demand that a duty be laid on foreign corn, when imported, corresponding to the excess of burdens affecting them. It has been doubted, however, whether they are in this predicament. But though the question be by no means free from difficulty, we should be disposed to decide it in the affirmative, being pretty well satisfied that, owing to the local and other burdens laid on the land, those occupying it are really subjected to heavier taxes than any other class. It is difficult, or rather perhaps, impossible, to estimate with any degree of precision what the excess of taxes laid on the agri_ culturists beyond those laid on manufacturers and merchants may amount to; but we have elsewhere shown that if we esti mate it as making an addition of five or six shillings to the quarter of wheat, we shall certainly be beyond the mark (see my edition of ' the Wealth of Nations,' vol. iv., p. 369). However, we should in a case of this sort reckon it safer to err on the side of too much protection than of too little, and ould not, therefore, object to a fixed duty of six shillings or seven shillings a quarter being laid on wheat, and a propor tionate duty being laid on other species of grain. Under such a system the ports would be always open. The duty would not be so great as to interpose any very formidable ob. stacle to importation. Every one would know beforehand the extent to which it would operate, at the same time that the just rights and interests of the agriculturists and of every other class would be maintained unimpaired." The protecting duties on manufactures are not strictly analogous to the duty on corn ; for the duty on corn amounts substantially to a prohibition, except when the prices in this country have almost reached the starvation point. Manufactures may be imported at any time into Great Britain —the duty is fixed and known ; but corn is subject to a fluctuating duty, which, except in years of ab solute scarcity, amounts to a prohibition. There is, there fore, no analogy, as the Standard pretends. As to the other arguments, " national i ndependence —security against famine—the preservation of capital in the country—the sustaining the condition of the labouring classes, whether in the field, the forge, or the mill —the safety of our manufac turers themselves," strung together by the Standard, they may be safely diseegarded. No one believes that the Corn laws have any other object than to raise the rents of the landlords ; and still less can any man of the least sense believe that they are not injurious to all the indus trious classes. That the manufacturers are injured by them is almost a self-evident proposition. No manufac turer would export what he manufactures if he could have a market for all that he produces at home ; and as no man will sell cheaper abroad the be can sell at home, the price of our manufactures in the foreign market determines their price at home. The manufacturer cannot obtain a higher price than he otherwise would on account of the high price of food, and, therefore, what he pays beyond what foreign corn would sell for in our market, were there a fixed duty of ss. or 6s. the quarter on wheat, is a tax levied on him in order to raise the rents of landlords. The Standard wishes that regard may be had to the landlord's incumbrances ; that is, he must give the lie to the old proverb, and both have his cake and eat it. But, as Lord Melbourne said, th e people cannot expect the Government to propose an alteration of the Corn-laws if they themselves do not seem in earnest on the subject. The landlords are not men to g i ve wa y to mere demonstrations of the injustice of their pretensions.—Morning Chronicle. Modern times have afforded no instance of re t r ib ut i ve justice more striking than that exhibited in the fear and MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, SEPT. 5. Ann Gosling was indicted for assaulting Emma Bonner, a girl about twelve years of age. Mr. RYLAND stated the case on the part of the prosecution, which was instituted by the Guardians of the Poor of the Strand Union. The prosecutrix was an orphan, about twelve years of age, and when eight years old was placed in the workhouse of the parish of St. Anne's, Soho. Since the passing of the Poor-law Amendment Act that parish had been joined to the Strand Union. Up to the 29th of March the child continued in .the Union workhouse. The defendant and her husband lived in Tottenham-street, Tottenham-court road, and on the day above-mentioned the prosecutrix was by the officers of the Union placed eut with them as a servant. She continued to live with them until August, when in conse quence of some communication made to the officers of the Union by a Mr. Rees, a tradesman who resided in the neigh bourhood of the defendant's house, the prosecutrix was taken away from them and again placed in the workhouse. After hearing her statement of the treatment she had received at the hands of the defendant, the officers had her person ex amined by the surgeon, who found several severe bruises on her back and shoulders, that a quantity of her hair had been torn out by the roots, and that she had received other injuries of a very severe nature, to such an extent that she had been under the care of the surgeon ever since. At the close of the prosecutrix's evidence a long consulta tion took place between the Counsel on both sides, which ended in an offer on the part of the defendant to pay the pro secutrix 51., and which was acceded to on the part of the Counsel for the prosecution. Th• defendant then withdrew her plea of Not Guilty, and pleaded Guilty to the indictment. The Court then sentenced her to pay a fine of one shilling. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A man named John Clement was charged with robberies, by which he was said to have lived very comfortably for some considerable time. His practice was stated to be as follows:—Coopers are in the habit of purchasing casks from persons who are believed to be in the trade, and the prisoner, who is acquainted with the technicalities of the business, went to a cooper, and said that he had three or four puncheons to dispose of. An agree ment was made for thirty or forty shillings, and the prisoner pretended that one pound or twenty-five shillings were due upon the purchases, and persuaded the cooper to send a man with a truck and the necessary sum. The prisoner prevailed upon the truckowner to give him the money, while he walked in at one door of a public-house, where he said the puncheons lay, and walked out at another. His success was for some time very great. Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL desired that the prisoner should be taken before a magistrate for the county, as must of the robberies were said to have been committed there. Several poor persons who had been thus plundered were in attendance to prefer charges against the prisoner. A young man named David Hogan, who had all the ap pearance of an unsophisticated countryman, was brought be fore Sir CuArum( MARSRALL under the following circum stances : Judah Josephs, a lad between fourteen and fifteen years of age, the son of a Jew clothes-seller in Harrow-alley, stated that the prisoner walked into the shop on Tuesday evening, and after looking at and bargaining about some clothes, contrived to conceal two waistcoats in his hat. Wit ness, however, observed him hold the bat in an odd manner, accused him of stealing some of the clothes, and found the waistcoats in his hat. An officer, who was called in, took the prisoner into custody, and upon searching found upon him a third waistcoat. The witness stated that he had been left by his father in care of the shop, and that while the prisoner was pretending to be purchasing nobody was present but the prisoner and the witness. Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL asked the prisoner whether he wished to put any questions to tho lad? Prisoner—l wish to ask him whether he did not receive half-a-sovereign from me, and give me two half-crowns in change? Witness—Not at all. You never gave me any money and I never gave you any change. Prisoner—Never gave you any money 1 How can you say so? Witness—l do say you never did. Prisoner—l gave you half-a-sovereign. You wanted five shillings for the two waistcoats, and I said I could only give you four, and I wanted you to give the other shilling when you were handing me the change, and I insisted upon it, and would not leave the shop without it. Sir. C. MARSHALL—But how do you account for the pos session of the other waistcoat which the policeman found upon you ? Prisoner—l bought that and the hat I wore from a boy in the alley just before I went to deal with this young man. It was much against my will I went into the shop, it was so dark, but he prevailed upon me, and he saw me the moment I bought the waistcoats from him put them into the hat. A crowd of Jew fellows on hearing the dispute abused me, but I was resolved not to go without my change, and then he charged me with stealing. Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL—What does the officer say ? The officer stated that the prisoner made exactly the same state ment to him which had been just made to the Alderman, and the money found upon the prisoner was just two half-crowns. Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL (to the boy)—Now, you are upon your oath. Do you persist in saying that this man gave you no money ? Judah Josephs—l do. I've sworn a very bitter oath. He did not give me a farthing. Mr. HOBLER—Did he give you half a sovereign ? Witness —No. Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL (to the prisoner)—What did ou buy these waistcoats for ? Prisoner—To sell again in the country. I had ju3t come up from Gravesend, and had been harvesting in Kent, and I intended to go down to hop. The officer said that in no respect had the prisoner's state ment in the Justice-room differed from the statement he had made upon being charged with the offence. Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL—It 1S a difficult matter to judge in this case. Has the prisoner any friends to speak as to his character ? Prisoner—l have a brother who owns 50 or 60 cows, and if he is sent for to Whitechapel he will come. I never cheated or robbed anybody in my life. Sir C. MARSHALL—Why did you not send to inform him of the difficulty in which you were placed ? Prisoner—l had nobody to send any where. Sir CHAPMAN—Let him be sent for. . _ The father of Judah Josephs stepped forward and said that he could swear that the waistcoat which the prisoner said had been purchased from a boy in the street was his property. He knew it by the initial of his first name in the lining. Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL—Do you swear that it is your writing ? Witness—l do, and I can bring others to swear to it too. The writing on the other waistcoat is not mine. The prisoner was not at all touched by this testimony, but proceeded to detail the particulars of the purchase of the waistcoat more minutely. Sir C. MARSHALL said that the father of the boy certainly threw additional weight into the scale on the side of the prosecutor. The brother of the prisoner soon afterwards arrived, and stated that he was, as he had been described to be, the owner of a great number of cows, and that the prisoner never had acted in such a manner as would justify the suspicion that he was capable of a dishonest action. Sir C. MARSHALL, in remanding the case, advised the pri soner to be very cautious, whatever might be the result of the investigation, how he went to purchase waistcoats in Har row-alley. _ _ _ Prisoner—l shall take care in future, my Lord, you may depend upon it. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. Domingo de Sousa, a black man, of horrid aspect and powerful structure, was charged with begging and with break.. ing the right leg of Samuel Daniels, a Mendicity Society officer, in two places. The prisoner was seen by Daniels begging in Soho, and knowing him to be an incorrigible vagabond as well as im poster, he followed him to take him into custody. Having met policeman Sullivan, he asked him to give assistance, as the black fellow possessed prodigious personal strength, and invariably made a desperate resistance. Having come up with the prisoner he told him he must take him to the station-house as a vagrant. The prisoner threw down a basket which he had in his hand, and said, " Me no go wid Mendicity -." He then struck him a violent blow on the breast, and tried to close and throw him down. Sullivan came up and seized the prisoner, and received a bite which brought blood, and some severe blows on the chest. Policeman Merchant came up and was likewise attacked by the prisoner with all the activity and ferocity of a tiger. The prisoner was moved on for a short distance; but when he got into Portland-street he made a sudden spring, shook himself clear of policeman Sullivan in an instant, closed with Daniels, and hurled hire to the ground with such force as to break both bones of his right leg. After inflicting with his knee a shock ing injury on policeman Sullivan, he sprung away, but was caught by policeman Merchant, between whom and himself a fierce struggle ensued. The policeman was strong and re solute, but such was the fury of the prisoner that he would have got loose had not Sullivan recovered, and come forward to his assistance. The resistance of the prisoner was de scribed as more resembling the attack of a wild beast than of a human being. His physiognomy, which closely resembled an ourang outang, was hideously distorted. His eyes rolled furiously, and he bit at his opponents, using a kind of growl, so ferociously, that it was astonishing he did not succeed in making his escape. Daniels was conveyed to Middlesex Hos pital, and only discharged on Tuesday last. Mr. DYER said the present case was of a very serious de scription, and he should send it to the Sessions. The parties were then bound over to prosecute. The black man, as he was removed, gave a caper of exulta tion, and called out, " Me berg glad me break de Mendicity -- leg." MARY LEB ONE. BRUTAL ASSAULT.—Yesterday, Thomas Ruebridge, pro • prietor and driver of a cab, was charged with the following outrageous assault upon Robert Franklin, of Boston-street, Regent's-park. Complainant, whose right arm was in a sling, the shoulder being dislocated, stated that between twelve and one o'clock on the night of the Tuesday previous he was going home, when just by a coach stand in Boston-street he met a young girl, whom he accosted, and asked to have something to drink. The defendant, whose cab was on the stand, and who was sit ting on the steps of a door, came up, and saying, " You long slab, if you don't go off I'll knock your eye out," up with his fist, and struck him in the eye. The force of the blow knocked him down, and, on getting up, he was again felled to the ground. On recovering himself he found he was in the shop of a surgeon, and that his shoulder was dislocated. H e was subsequently conveyed to an hospital, where he would, no doubt, hays to remain some time. A certificate from the hospital surgeon was put in, stating the nature of the injury, and that the complainant would no doubt not be able to use his arm for six or seven weeks. It was here stated to the Magistrate that the defendant had frequently been similarly charged. The last time was for biting off a man's thumb. The defendant having expressed his willingness to make the complainant some recompense, The Magistrate consented to that couts,:s: and The defendant, having given the complainant three guineas, was discharged. HAT7'OIV-GARDEN. It will be recollected that a few days ago the parish aut:2° - rities of St. Andrew, Holborn, brought before the Magistrates a lunatic named Langdon, for the purpose of being passe to Hanwell Asylum, when Mr. Bennett refused to sign the order merely upon the opinion of the parish doctor, as the man gave answers which appeared reasonable to the bench. Langdon was taken to the workhouse, from which he escaped , and he had been guilty of the most outrageous acts, and he was again apprehended and brought before the Magistrates. Mr. White and other medical gentlemen were sworn as to his insanity, and stated that the prisoner had been three years confined in Hoxton madhouse. Mr. BEN TT asked him what ailed him ? Langdon—Yee asked me that the last time I was here, I believe. Mr. BENETT-What were you brought here for? Lang' don—That I can't say. Mr. White said that he had behaved violently towards bill wife, and broken the windows. Mr. BENETT-Why did you break the windows and M use your wife ? Langdon—Why, it was better to break the windows than knock down my wife; you say I am mad, but don't say so ; I can't say who is mad here, but I know I as wild enough because I am brought here without my dinner. Mr. BENETT—Have you ever seen a madman ? Langdon —I dare say I have. Mr. BENETT-Did you ever see mad people in lloxtoe Asylum ? The prisoner entered into a wild discourse which evidently indicated insanity, and the Magistrates signed the order for his admission. Yesterday several beer-shopkeepers were summoned to an swer the complaint of Byers, the informer, for keeping open their houses for the sale of beer during the hours of divine service on the Sabbath day. In caselw here the evidence was clear the Magistrates convicted in the penalty of 40s. and costs, being the lowest penalty under the Act of Parliament , and in some instances the parties were merely ordered to pay costs. John Bolles, a ruffianly looking fellow, was examined , charged with having committed an outrageous assault upon Sergeant Mason, No. 15 G division, by which his life is placed in danger. It appeared that on Tuesday morning last between one and two o'clock, a disturbance took place in West. street, Saffron hill, when Smith, 79, White, 46, and Sergeant Mason, th e injured man, interfered, on which they were attacked and se' verely maltreated, and the prisoner, seizing on a large ston e, flung it at Sergeant Mason's head, and, striking him on the bac k part of the head, felled him to the ground, and he was carrisd away insensibie for medical assistance. Mr. WHITHAM inquired as to his etate. The Inspector replied that he was still in danger. The prisoner was remanded. Q UEEN-SQUARE. Alfred Burford and Henry Beaston were yesterday charge' with stealing a quantity of nuts from the grounds of the Hail cultural Society at Chiswick. A police constable prov e d th a t th e b o y s go t over t h e To ll the previous night and on their return he apprehended then with the nuts in their possession. Burford had been previously convicted for a similar offence. They were convicted in the penalty of 51. each, or o n e month's imprisonm e nt. O ne o f t h e gar d eners i nforme d VI Magistrates th a t th e d amage d one b y b oys to the groun d s a" fences was very considerable. UNION-HALL. Sarah Melton, the occupier of a house in Providence-stre et. Walworth, was summoned under a clause of the Mutiny A, c ! for harbouring Sergeant Pearson, o f th e Rifl e Brigade, "- deserted from his regiment, after having committed felorl• Sergeant Pearson, it will be recollected is the person win escaped from the T ower some ti me ago , w i t h two ot her Inc a belonging to the same regiment, who were incarcerated tog& ther, and were to have been tried by a Court-martial. Pear son, it appeared, on his liberation from confinement under t" , , extraordinary circumstances already detailed, went off lair ° , diately to the defendant's house, and alth oug h k no wn to be deserter, was admitted as a lodger, and lived there wit h female up to the time of his apprehension by an officer o f th ,e same regiment. Since Pearson was taken into custody t a t Commanding Officer of the Rifle Brigade gave directions proceedings should be adopted against the defendant for hi% bouring the sergeant, and evidence t o thi s e ff ec t having b e % produced, the defendant when called upo n f or h e r defence sa l , a t u that she had known Peason previously to his having desel:te and knowing him to be of a respectable family, she admi tt : that she did not refuse to give him lodgings in her ho? t s o f The defendant was fined 20/. for the offence, and is defau l payment was committed. W R SHIP- STREET. A young female, named Eliza Caroline, was brought befora. Mr. GnevE, by Sergeant fl 3. The prisoner was foun d shortly before wandering about Spitalfields, surrounded by 3 mob of persons who had been attracted by her violent languag e ' d Inquiries were set on foot respecting her, and it was ascer tained that she had lived in some respectable families, and ba d borne an excellent character, but that unfortunately she 1 1 0 formed an acquaintance with a young man named Walker , . fr e _ whom she became attached, and who, after having effected ben ruin, deserted her. She had been deprived of reason faithless since. That afternoon she accidentally met her faill„ eo lover, when he spurned her with such violence as to Pr°" - the excitement under which she was found labouring. „ u se The Sergeant said that the mother of th e g i r l kept a " re , of ill-fam e , and had turned her daughter away because she fused to follow a life of infamy. under tbe Mr. GROVE gave directions for her being placed care of her friends.—While at the bar the girl heaped cons'. imprecations upon the author of her ruin. THAMES-OFFICE. Yesterday C a pt a i n S p i cer, t h e Master o f the IY"'"ncl, Greenwich steamer, was brought before Mr. Green 7° a .. charged unde r th e Wilf u l D amage Act with w i l f u ll y and et? liciously running foul of the Naiad, a Woolwich steam:. which also takes in, and puts out, passengers at Greenwi i n o ,, Mr. GREEN WOOD sentence d t h e defendant to pay 2"doo• the amount of the d an i age , an d t h e costs, and seriously a nished him as to his future conduct. 10 ' CHARACTER O F M EHEMET A LT ,__. The ta of the Pasha mu s t b e ac k now l e d ge d , an d severa l enlighten :9, traits of mind and sentiment, and improvement of re essur the must be ascribed to him; but much of that which strikes . pg eye would adpear, on investigation, to be but the ernbc/cievil of Turkish prin c ipl es i n E uropean f orms, an d legalieing erf by systemizing th e p ower w hi c h i n fli cts i t; an d , a fter O w , concession due to such i m p rovements as h e may bav i t i i ,l, be duced, and to the extraordinary energy and ability by w. 0 0 has guided his care er , th ere oug h t to b e b ut one oPin'°-01, his political position—th at i t i s a ser i ous ev il to the c° „ 7•,nd• and to all the publi c i nterests depending or. it. —Lord say's Letters on Egypt. PLATED CORNER DISH 8 o with Strong Sil ver Ed ges an d H an dl es.— A S et o f Four 0 Cornor Di s h es an d C overs are o ff ere d , comp l ete, f or Ei g ht Gui ° 6 o i. or a set with richly-ornamented Edges, Handles, &c., for Te n v•fl4 neas. The Ha n dl es t a k e o ff th e C overs ; th e se t tus form "'lle Dishes when required. T. COX SAVORYS, Working 9:pfell mith, Silversmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London, k '- Doors from Gracechurch-street. ) N.B. A variety of Second-hand Watches may be selected f l.°lll* price Two Guineas each. Warranted. BIRTHS. r ot, On the 3d inst., at Bog nor , th e l a dy o f Si r Henry p ur Bart., of Scotton- Hall, Norfolk, of a son and heir. stre et ' On the 4th inst., Mrs. Eavestaff, of Great Russel l- Bloomsbury, of a daughter. • On the 31st ult., at Madehurst, Sussex, the lady of Martin Smith, Esq., of a son. On the 3d inst., at Leamington, Lady Howard, of a so n. ge f• On the 4th inst., at Breadsall Rectory, the lady of the Henry R. Crewe, of a daughter. J. •I Jo. MARRIED. On the 18th ult., at St. John's, Hackney, by the R ev ' - gad Winter, A.M., C. M. D enys D ro i n, Esq., of Geneva, t ° _, N l• Anne, eldest dau g ht er o f M r. Willi am K err, of Bla.ckfris r3 On the 4th inst., at Wrenbury Church, Cheshire, John o f •In Cross Sta r k ey , E sq . , o f t h e Madras Army, eldest sr.; tide s Cross Stark e y, E sq., o f W ren b ury Hall, to Soph i a 3131 1 ' 4 daughter of the late Captain Robert Campbell, R.N. George On the 4th inst., at St. George's Church, Hanover- 54e Georg t - 0 T. A. Pesterre of St. James's-street (nephew of iq v ' t he 13 Willis), to Charlotte Ann, only surviving daughter of Mr. Fran c i s B a ld ry , o f N ew B on d- s t ree t. 13s° tor' if' On the 4th i ns t., a t W oo l w i c h, Ch ar l es Collambell, __ t su rf geon, Ca n t er b ur y-pl ace , L am b e th, t o H en ri e tta, young e ! ino• daughter of the late J o hn 111‘Coy, Esq., Royal Arttivvbwt On the 3d inst., at North Walsham, the Rev. John elde Tell, Rector of Ridlington with E as t R us t on , to Ann Jan e„ 4, staughter of the late Rev. William Rees,' Vicar of Horse'' , t, Egg On the 4th inst., at Paddington Ch urc h, James Vin ce OsnabUrgh-terrace, Regent' s -p ar k, t o M ar ia, only 00, 00 Richard Pittman, E s q., o f Paddington-green. Fi sher ' - 'gas 3 On the 21st of July, a t Sierra Leone, William u e ila Esq., Deputy Assistant Commiss ar y General, to Creighton, the youngest d aug ht er o f C apta i n Creighton ,l "' ft• 11th Regiment of Light Dragoons. gar/ to On l the sth inst., at St. George's, B oornsburYl lace, • , vt Morn P An Downman, Esq., of Carmarthen, and Upper Ro bert Eliza Sarah, youngest daughter of the late Thomas drews, Esq., of Upper Bedford-place, Russell-square. --roe fft A 11; rOe On the 4th inst., at Waterperry, Oxon, the r Rev .l . _. en h thony Denison, to Ge org i ana, e ld est d aug hter of 02 Henley, Esq., of Waterperry. .------- - DIED. Os' On the 3d inst., a t th e Vi carage, M er t o n, Lincolnshire' lteth, wife of the Rev. Samuel Hopkinson, ayed 82. ne e D e " On the 3d ' t L ins ~ at aura-place, Clapton, oseph Laura-- vall, Esq., aged 72. M is s IVls r/ On the 3d inst., at the Rectory House, Isleviorth, 4-1 Douglass, aged 74. goer On the Ist inst., at New Lodge, Sta ff ordshire, A rth u r 0 04°' Es O q , n a the 3d inst., at Ramsgate, Diana, wife of George arl 'af Esq., aged 61. Ann a the 3d inst., at Hoddington House , Hants, o.na M eldest daughter of William Lutley Sclater, Esq., ageL G' of T " : -- _ - Loadon : Printed and Published by MURDO t he so 112, Strand, at The Sun Offiee, No. 113, Stiran O d) as pub of Middlesex.—Thursday, September 6, 1/0- i